A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Ideas are the roots of creation.
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
I know that God is using me in ways beyond my comprehension.
There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned.